Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Michael Collins leads the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series field out of the hairpin at the 31st annual Skope Classic historic motor racing meeting at Mike Pero Motorsport Park – Ruapuna
Local ace Michael Collins (Leda GM1) got within 0.168 of a second of claiming a qualifying/race win/quickest race lap clean sweep at the latest round of New Zealand’s SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series in Christchurch over the weekend.
However, rather than rue the difference between himself in second place and the winner of the category’s new ‘rolling-start-handicap’ race on Sunday morning, Shayne Windelburn (Lola T400), defending category holder and current class pacesetter Collins said that he would simply have to work even harder next time.
Press Release – New Zealand Formula 5000 Association
Legendary Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival Series races by category young gun Michael Collins.
Thursday, 4 February 2021, 8:15 am
Legendary
Kiwi racing driver & car builder Graham McRae delivering
his driving master class at Wigram in 1972 in his then new
Leda GM1 001.
The year 1972 will go
down in the annals of New Zealand’s motor racing history
as the year driver/engineer Graham McRae came of age – in
a car – the garish fluro pink Leda LT27/GM1 – of his own
design.
This weekend, at the 31st annual Skope Classic
historic motor racing meeting in Christchurch, the legacy of
this great Kiwi and the very same car will be brought back
to life in the SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000 Tasman Cup Revival
Sunday, 24 January 2021, 7:15 pm
Copyright:
Geoff Ridder
Category young gun
Michael Collins (Leda GM1) made every move a winning one in
the feature Taupo Historic Grand Prix trophy race at the
second round of the 2020/21 SAS Autoparts MSC NZ F5000
Tasman Cup Revival motor racing series at the lakeside
central North Island city’s Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park
today (Sunday Jan 24).
Behind the wheel of the
Alistair and Vicki Hey-owned ex Graham McRae/Dexter Dunlop
1972 Tasman Cup/US L&M series-winning Leda GM1, Collins,
25, set the fastest race lap - a 1:28. 532- on his way to
his second lights-to-flag victory at the fifth annual, this